User talk:Shelati

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Roseville, New South Wales
In your change to Roseville, New South Wales, you added duplicate "image" and "caption" parameters to the info box. Please fix it.

­— JWilk (talk) 19:23, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Mass changes without discussion
You appear to be making mass changes to a set of articles without any prior discussion about these changes. The use of the Infobox Australian place has been established for a long time. Please stop making these changes and discuss what you are doing at the Australian Wikipedians' notice board. Thank you. Kerry (talk) 23:06, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Kerry. Please see my response here, where you started the discussion on the said topic. Shelati 01:55, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Shelati while I appreciate your enthusiasm, as per the discussion you linked to, please pause making these changes to other suburbs whilst that discussion takes place. Find bruce (talk) 03:24, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Bruce. It's all good. I just did. I was just doing some finishing touches, before reading this message. For the record, some of the suburbs had no maps prior hand (such as this one, among many others, for instance) Shelati 03:55, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * It looks like the discussion on on the suburb maps is moving towards consensus. I suggest waiting a few more days just in case anyone has anything more to add, but after that your next step is to write there something like "OK, I'll start implementing this next week (or whenever)". Kerry (talk) 05:37, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Dry rainforest
Hello Shelati,

Thanks for your interest in Grevillea robusta. If you don't mind, I'd like dry rainforest to be left red-linked. We need a Wikipedia article on the subect of dry rainforest. It's an important environment/habitat in parts of eastern Australia (for example in the New England National Park and Oxley Wild Rivers National Park. Hard to write such an article though, because it would contradict the first phrase in the Rainforest article. There is an article entitled Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests but they are something quite different. I'll get to it (dry rainforest) but hopefully someone else may see the red-link and have a go at it. Gderrin (talk) 09:29, 2 August 2019 (UTC)


 * It's all good and I understand. I thought, since its page didn't exist, 'dry rainforest' being linked would be irrelevant. I also would like a dry rainforest page for Australian forests. If that helps, Cumberland Plain Woodland page does cover the dry rainforest in Sydney, if you want to check it out. Shelati 04:07, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. Actually, the rainforest page is a mess - the lead should be a summary (with no refs.) and at least some of the refs are dead-linked anyway. I note that the ref. for "high rainfall" is to a page about tropical rainforest. Of course they're wet! Other statements have no citations at all. I'm a bit busy with other projects, but this is definitely on my to-do list. Any help would be appreciated. Gderrin (talk) 04:58, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
 * No problem. I'm really keen on creating a 'dry rainforest' article btw. Shelati 14:33, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Avoiding Dab errors
Hello again Shelati,

I noticed you've been getting messages about linking to Dab pages. Here's a trick you may find useful. If you go to your "Preferences" (top of your user or talk page), hit "Gadgets", go down the page you should find a button "Display links to disambiguation pages in orange". If you √ that box, in future, when (if) you create a link to a disambiguation page, it will appear orange. (Don't forget to hit "Save". Strongly recommend great care in changing anything else though.) Gderrin (talk) 09:45, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much man. Really appreciate it. Shelati 14:34, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Minor edits
Just FYI. A minor edit is one that does not change the information conveyed by an article, but rather changes something like spelling, grammar, punctuation, layout. See WP:MINOR for the full blurb. Misuse of the minor edit flag can get you into trouble if someone later questions the edit. When I do Wikipedia training, my advice to new folks is NOT to use the minor flag at all. Firstly it's one less click for you and secondly you are more likely to get into trouble for ticking it than for not ticking it. I rarely flag my own changes as minor (except for doing mass housekeeping edits). Kerry (talk) 05:47, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up. Funnily, I actually thought not ticking 'minor edit', after making a small edit, will get you in trouble rather. I will put that in mind and refrain from clicking it habitually on my 'brief' edits. Shelati 15:30, 9 August 2019 (UTC)